Improved composition for preparing ribbons for hand-stamps



, UNITED STATES Honaon HOLT, 0F new YORK, N. Y., Assienonro w. W. sEooMB IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING RIBBONS FORHAND-STAMPS. a

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,494, dated April 25, 1865 understand and use the same.

In certain classes of hand-stamps ink-prepared ribbons are used, which are drawn through between the die and the bed and give the impression when the die is depressed. For the purpose of preparing these ribbons ordinary printing-ink has been used in the absence of some better composition, and a ribbon thus prepared will give about thirty (more or less) impressions on the same spot.

The composition which forms the subjectmatter of this invention, and the coloring base, which is one of the aniline colors, when properly mixed and applied to the ribbons,

allows of taking more than one hundred impressions from the same spot. In fact, the color seems to be inexhaustible, and it is therefore of great value for the purpose above stated.

I prepare my new composition by dissolving aniline red, or any other of the Well-known I aniline colors, in glycerine, or anyothertfatty PATENT OFFICE. s

material known as aysolvent of such colorior colors, and then I saturate the ribbon ther withby applyingthe composition to it a brush, or by drawing the ribbon vthrough it, or in any other suitable manner; 'Ihe ribbon readily absorbs enough of l the compositionto serve the desired purpose, and when said ri bon is applied to a hand-stamp it gives a very large number of I impressions from, one 1 spot, as above stated, and, furthermore,fthe aniline colors appear to penetrate intothe paper and combine with the fiber thereof in suchf a way that an impression taken fromfthenew ribbon is less liable to be wiped ofi 101"? blotted than an impression taken from the old ribbon,-which always requires some time to dry, and when rubbed immediately} after it has beenwtaken is liable to smear andproduce a bad effect. {\l

. I claim as new and desire to secure by ters Patent- I y l I y v The within described composition applie to a ribbon, substantially as and forithepu posesetiorth. II I 1% HORAOEHOLT. I

Witnesses: I

LIVINGSTON, 1 I 1 f G. L. TOPLIFF. w 

